Chapter 104: A Strong Woman Is Afraid of a Clinging Man
The Howards are gone.
Tang Liren arranged for Tan Fenghui to take care of the little ones until they went to sleep, and then the whole family hugged Lili in the middle -
Bai Zhenggan asked nervously, "Lizi, what did Howard tell you?"
Lili blushed and said nervously and awkwardly: "He, he said... he would stay here for half a month... I, I would be with him... If, if it works, then, then..."
As she spoke, she took a deep breath.
"Mom and Dad, I, I want to try it with him..." Lili's voice became smaller and smaller.
Everyone stared at Lili with complicated expressions.
Bai Zhenggan, "My girl, have you thought it through?"
Tang Liren, "Don't try! What's the point of trying to be a stepmother?"
Dongsheng, "Sister, if you don't like him, we can just ignore him. We haven't done anything wrong, so we don't need to be afraid of him."
Nansheng, "Lizi, don't be afraid of him. If you don't want to stay here, just come with me to my company and I'll arrange a temporary job for you..."
Tao Tao, "Third sister, this is a lifelong event, you have to think it through!"
Xing Xing, "Sister Li Zi, I don't agree with this, I don't agree, I don't agree!"
After taking care of the children, Tan Fenghui came out of the house and heard what everyone was saying. She asked in surprise, "What happened?"
The family said angrily:
"Lili, why do you have to date Howard?"
"Lili, do you want to piss off your mother to death?"
"Third sister, don't be friends with him! You can't be friends with him!"
"Hey, the more well-behaved she is at ordinary times, the more stubborn she becomes!"
"Third sister, we have many other solutions. This is the worst possible solution!"
"Lili, please think about it carefully..."
Tan Fenghui, "Okay, stop talking!"
Then he turned to Lili who was lowering her head and said, "Lili, tell us everything you think, okay?"
Lili raised her head and looked around...she saw her family members staring at her with an evasive look.
"Don't be afraid, tell your sister-in-law!" said Tan Fenghui.
Among the women in the Bai family, Tang Liren, Taotao and Xingxing are all those who are unwilling to suffer any loss. Tan Fenghui and Lili are relatively gentle in character, and the relationship between the two sisters-in-law is also deeper.
Lili knew very well that even if the whole family did not agree with her decision, her sister-in-law would definitely agree with it.
She hummed softly and said in a low voice: "I, I have a dream..."
Everyone was stunned.
No, isn't this talking about her and Howard?
Why is she talking about her dream again?
Bai Lili said: "I want to... be like my father, like my elder brother, like my second brother, like the future Taotao and Song Zhi... to have a chance to serve the people."
As she spoke, her voice became louder, her expression became more determined, and her eyes were sparkling.
Everyone was stunned.
Tang Liren, "Then why can't you serve the people?"
"But, but I want to date Howard first..." As she spoke, Lili started to blush again.
Tang Liren was stunned. "What?"
Everyone looked at each other.
Tan Fenghui understood Lili again, "Lili is trying to say that after she and Howard started dating, she had the opportunity to serve the people, right?"
Lili nodded quickly.
Bai Zhenggan frowned, "Then you are working in the guest house now, aren't you also serving the people?"
"Poor people don't have the money to eat out!" Lili said disapprovingly, "Besides, I work at the Municipal Party Committee Guest House, and all the people who eat here are leaders! That's called serving the leaders!"
Bai Zhenggan frowned, "Then the leaders are no longer the people?"
Lili: ...
"No, I, I... Howard said that I can teach the poor, the disabled, and those whose families are in particularly difficult financial situations to learn my craft... Then they will have a skill and can support their families. In the future, I can do more to help everyone... Dad, I also want to be a useful person." Lili said.
Everyone was speechless.
They all cursed Howard in their hearts: Shame on you! In order to take away our sweet pears, he actually...
But Howard didn't lie. Given his level, it would be no problem for Lili to marry him and work for the Disabled Persons' Federation, the Women's Federation or the Children's Protection Association.
But that is—
Tang Liren, "I don't care about anything else. You can serve whoever you want. Bai Lili, I am your mother. I have to be responsible for your happiness for the rest of your life!"
Bai Lili, "Is it because he is married for the second time and has a child?"
Tang Liren: "You..."
Bai Lili said: "He said he has no feelings for his ex-wife, and I believe him. He also told me a lot. He said he is busy with work and may not be able to take care of me, his children and his mother... If mom is worried about him and his ex-wife, I don't think he has time to take care of this. Besides, his ex-wife has already settled abroad..."
Tang Liren, "Then you have to take care of his child?"
Bai Lili whispered, "I don't want Mingyong, Mingyong is very cute."
Tang Liren said angrily, "You are not his stepmother yet! Of course he likes you! Think about Guan Hailong and Fang Ling! When Fang Ling married Guan Lao Zong, Guan Hailong was the same age as Huo Mingyong. Guan Lao Zong was also busy and never came home. Then you see Guan Hailong and Fang Ling fought for their whole lives... Who has a better life?"
Bai Lili lowered her head, "Mingyong is not Guan Hailong, and I am not Fang Ling."
"you!"
Tang Liren was extremely angry.
Tan Fenghui quickly tried to smooth things over, "Mom! Lili is right. People are different. We don't need to compare our own misfortunes with others... Lili, Mom is concerned about you, too."
Lili nodded and said softly, "I'm already prepared... The biggest problem between him and me is getting along. Because he's busy with work, he may not have much time to accompany me. In fact, because I'm young, and his mother is old, and his children are young... It seems that I'm at a disadvantage. If I marry him, it's like being a nanny, taking care of the elderly and children for him... Mom, are you worried about this?"
Tang Liren's eyes turned red and she stared at Lili hatefully.
"You still know?"
Lili smiled, "But his mother is of a higher rank, and has assistants and nannies around her. She doesn't need my care, she just needs my company."
"But mom, I like Grandma Huo, Mingyong and Mingcheng. I feel very happy with them... To me, the only stranger is Howard." Lili said.
Tan Fenghui looked at Tang Liren's face and said softly, "Mom, let me say something..."
"I know what you are worried about. It's nothing more than... Howard is too strong and powerful. If Lili marries him, if she gets wronged in the future, we won't be able to do anything to him, right?" Tan Fenghui asked.
Tang Liren sighed, "Why not? We are so worried about you!"
Tan Fenghui smiled, "But are strong people necessarily bad people?"
Everyone was stunned.
Tan Fenghui continued, "We can also think about it from another angle... Lili is too soft, like a dough figurine. In the past, in the village, no matter who bullied her since she was a child, she never said a word... Mom, your fierce temper is half because you are angry at Nan, and the other half is to protect Lili and Taotao, right?"
Nansheng shrank his neck and Lili lowered her head.
Tang Liren sighed, "One of them is always causing trouble for me! The other one is like a gourd with a sawed mouth! She dared not make a sound even when she was bullied to death... If I hadn't protected her, even her bones would have been chewed up and swallowed!"
Tan Fenghui smiled and said, "But Howard is a powerful man. If our Lili marries him, who will dare to bully her in the future?"
Everyone: ...
That makes sense!
Tang Liren was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses, "No, what if Howard bullies her too?"
Xing Xing also said, "That's right! He's already a high-ranking official. If Third Sister doesn't love him and wants to leave him, I'm afraid she won't be able to get a divorce easily, right?"
Song Zhi hesitated for a moment, "Huo Huaen is not an unreasonable person... At least he still agreed to divorce Zhou Lu. Besides, even if he is in a high position, it does not mean that he cannot divorce. As long as he agrees, we can get a divorce."
Bai Zhenggan frowned, "What's wrong with you? I haven't even agreed to the marriage yet, why are you talking about divorce?"
Lili said softly, "I, I'll give it a try with him... He promised me that we can be together for half a month, and if it doesn't work out, he'll let me go back to the countryside."
"You want to go to the countryside?" Tang Liren asked in surprise, "What are you going to do? We just came from the countryside... We haven't lived a good life for a few days, you, you want to go to the countryside?"
Everyone's eyes widened.
Lili said uneasily, "Mom, even if I don't marry him, I don't want to stay here anymore... Not only will it cause trouble for you, but I won't be able to live well either."
Dongsheng muttered, "We won't agree to let you go to the countryside... You are being bullied right under our noses! Letting you go to the countryside alone... That would be unacceptable!"
Lili's lips pursed, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I want to go to the countryside! When I was in the village, I could work eight hours a day! I won't starve to death wherever I go!"
Tang Liren said sternly: "You want to go to the countryside? Only if I die!"
Lili, "I don't want to be pointed at by them!"
Tang Liren: ...
Bai Zhenggan sighed, "If I let you go to the countryside, I might as well let you marry Howard!"
Seeing her mother-in-law glaring at her father-in-law, Tan Fenghui was afraid that they would quarrel, so she quickly said, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore! Well, it's getting late, let's all go to bed! Let's discuss this tomorrow, tomorrow!"
Bai Dongsheng also said: "Dad, Mom, let's think about this matter again. Don't panic, there is still time!"
At that moment, Song Zhi left with Taotao, Song Sui and Nansheng, and Dongsheng also left with Tan Fenghui.
Because the four little kids slept in the next room, Xingxing and Lili slept in the same room.
The two sisters squeezed into one bed.
Xingxing remembered the dream she used to have often.
In fact, because the fate of her family has changed dramatically, Xingxing has gradually forgotten the world in her dreams.
But Xingxing still has some impression of Howard.
He is a political strongman.
——He divorced early in his life and never remarried. He had a son but I heard that he was mediocre. When he grew up, he worked as an ordinary worker in a factory and unfortunately died in a work-related accident.
Howard's vigorous and decisive style of work has convinced people all over the country.
Xingxing in the dream died in the year 2000. Howard died a year earlier than her. According to gossip, he was plagued by illness and tortured in his later years. When he died, the whole country was shocked. The top leader's evaluation of him is: he belongs to the people.
Thinking of this, Xingxing began to breathe heavily.
No matter what kind of person Howard is, Xingxing still hopes that her sister can be happy.
Xingxing stretched out her fingers and tickled the itchy spot on her sister's waist.
Lili trembled all over and cursed, "I'm going to die!"
"Sister, please don't marry him, okay?" Xingxing begged softly.
Xingxing knows her third sister too well.
The third sister loves everyone in the family...
——In her dream, the third sister voluntarily married a man who abused his wife just to raise money for her second brother. Less than a year after getting married, my third sister passed away.
That was a…
A grief that the whole family could not bear.
Fortunately, it has not happened now.
But Xingxing was also certain that her third sister was determined to date Howard and even said that if she couldn't get along with Howard, she would go to the countryside... In the final analysis, she was still afraid of bringing trouble to her family!
This silly sister...
Xingxing hugged Lili's waist from behind and begged softly, "Sister! Third sister... my sister Lizi! Dear sister, please don't go to the countryside, okay? And don't marry Howard, okay? Please promise me, promise me..."
Lili remained silent.
After a long while, she said softly: "You... really hate him that much?"
Xing Xing said in a crying voice: "I'm afraid he doesn't love you!"
Lili: ...
Xing Xing choked up and said, "Because he belongs to the people."
Lili:? ? ?
Xing Xing, "So, he's so busy and doesn't have time to treat you well... Why would he marry you? It's enough for him to have a job, he doesn't need a wife!"
Lili, "Nonsense, people eat grains and cereals, and they have seven emotions and six desires. They want to start a family..."
"Then you can't marry him!" Xing Xing said, "... Sister, you have to listen to me! It's fine if you don't love him, but if you do, he'll be busy working outside... You're already 25 this year, how much youth do you have left? Are you going to waste it waiting for him to come home? Sister, why don't you find an ordinary person, like our eldest brother and sister-in-law, or our fourth sister and brother-in-law, isn't it good?"
"Live an ordinary life, stay together, have one or two kids... Work hard at work, he buys groceries and you cook after work, he washes dishes and you take care of the kids... Isn't this a good life? Why do you have to marry someone who doesn't come home? The most frustrating thing is that you can't blame him for not coming home, after all, he is busy with work!"
Lili remained silent for a long time.
Xing Xing also nags a lot...
Later, I became more and more sleepy and fell into a drowsy sleep.
Lili lay on the pillow, her eyes blurred with tears.
——What Xingxing said just now...it's really like a god's life!
Who doesn’t want that?
But given her current situation, how could she find an ordinary man who wouldn't mind her being old or being raped?
That's really difficult.
Now that her reputation is damaged, those dirty rumors will not die down unless she leaves here. It is impossible for her to find her ideal husband, and she will also bring trouble to her family!
But--
Xing Xing's arm was still around her waist.
Lili carefully placed her sister's hand, then gently turned over and looked at her sister's childish and cute sleeping face.
Xing Xing's face still had traces of tears as she murmured in her sleep, "Sister Li Zi... don't marry him... Howard is a jerk... stay away from my sister!"
Lili's heart felt full and soft.
Everyone in the family loves her!
So, she has to protect them too.
Lili gently wiped away the cold tears on her sister's face, carefully covered her sister with a blanket, tidied her hair, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
She couldn't sleep at all.
After tossing and turning, she finally opened her eyes and stared blankly at the blurry ceiling in the darkness. She thought to herself: Xingxing's worries are not unreasonable. Then I have to remind myself all the time that I cannot love him, do not love him, do not expect his love, and do not expect his existence and dedication. Then I will not feel sad because of his absence. I can have plenty of time to handle work and cultivate my hobbies. When I become busy, I won’t care whether he is busy or not.
Lili sighed softly.
The next day was New Year’s Eve.
Early in the morning, Tang Liren went out to buy vegetables.
Then, Tang Liren, with her hands full, met Taotao and Song Zhi, Dongsheng and Tan Fenghui in the corridor of the tube building...
Everyone's hands were full of various things.
When I got home and took inventory——
Well, the three parties all bought chicken, duck, fish, pork knuckles, pork belly... and the duplication rate reached 300%!
The family couldn't help laughing as they looked at the various meat and vegetables that filled up most of the balcony.
Tang Liren was also helpless, "Okay! If we are not from the same family, we will not enter the same door!"
Lili has become busy.
Take out the ingredients for today’s New Year’s Eve dinner and move them to the kitchen. As for the rest, I asked my second brother to build a rack on the balcony and hang the meat and vegetables on it to dry - it is midwinter now, and although it has not snowed, the temperature has dropped below zero, so the meat and vegetables will not go bad if they are left for a few days.
The whole family became busy.
At this time, I don’t know who came and started knocking on the door?
Hongdou ran to open the door——
But it was Howard who arrived.
"Uncle, aunt, my mom asked me to come over and see if there's anything I can help with." Howard said to Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren.
Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren looked at each other.
Tang Liren, "Don't you need to take care of your own family?"
Howard smiled and said, "No, they are having lunch at the Guest House. I will go back and have dinner with them."
Bai Zhenggan said, "We don't have much work to do here, you should go back!"
He was also a little unhappy.
Lili is his daughter who was raised with his love. She is indeed gentle and shy, but when she gets stubborn, no one can stop her. Yesterday, Lili had already vaguely revealed her intention to date Howard... When Bai Zhenggan thought that the sweet pear he had raised with great effort would most likely be picked by this man, he felt so angry that he didn't want to give Howard the slightest bit of good face!
Just at this moment, Lili came out of the kitchen and saw Howard.
Then look at the parents, both of them look unhappy?
Lili, "Hey, come here!"
Howard immediately turned around and looked at Lili, then smiled and said to Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren, "Uncle, aunt, I'll go over and help Lili."
In fact, Howard doesn't know how to do housework.
Lili gave him a basket of rapeseed and asked him to pick vegetables. He was holding the basket of rapeseed, at a loss as to what to do. Fortunately, I saw Song Zhi wearing an apron and moving a small stool to sit in the toilet to kill chickens and fish...
Howard went over and humbly asked Song Zhi for leave, "Brother-in-law, how do you pick these vegetables?"
Song Zhi glanced at him and said, "Who is your brother-in-law? My wife doesn't recognize you. Don't try to get close to me. I'm not a casual person either." As he spoke, he raised his knife and chopped the slaughtered and plucked chicken into pieces of appropriate size.
Howard, "I didn't know you were so efficient at work."
Song Zhi, "I didn't know how to do it before! When I was sent to work in the countryside, I was at Taotao's house, watching her parents do it, and I learned it slowly... She didn't dare to kill chickens or anything, so I did it! After all, if I do more, my wife can do less!"
Howard asked again, "Does she help you with the work, too?"
Before Song Zhi could answer——
"Song Zhi!"
Taotao ran out of the kitchen with chopsticks in her hand and a meatball poked on the chopsticks. She handed the meatball to Song Zhi's mouth, "Try it quickly, is it salty enough?"
Song Zhi ate it and said, "Enough!"
"Is it tasty?"
"tasty!"
Taotao walked away satisfied.
Howard, "Fourth brother-in-law, how do I pick these vegetables..."
As a result, Taotao came over again, and this time there were a series of three meatballs on the chopsticks!
"Song Zhi, then try these three meatballs and see if there is any difference in the taste!" Taotao said.
Song Zhi smiled for a while, then obediently accepted Taotao's feeding.
Tang Li was cursing, "Bai Taozi! Where are the first pot of meatballs I steamed? How come there are only three left?!"
Taotao pouted, "Let me try the taste! We bought so much pork at home today, let's make more meatballs! Mom, can we make some seaweed meatballs..." As she said that, she went to the kitchen next door.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door again.
Bai Dongsheng, who happened to be standing at the door, opened it.
The person who came was Yuan Chunmei?
Bai Dongsheng glared at her and asked unceremoniously, "What are you doing here?"
But in just a few days, Yuan Chunmei lost weight again. She said to Dongsheng with tears in her eyes: "Brother Lili, I, I want to see Lili. Please let her come out. I, I just want to say one sentence."
"Not good!" Bai Dongsheng said, "What have you done to my sister? Don't you have any idea? Are you here to get scolded? Go away, no one welcomes you in our house!"
Having said that, Bai Dongsheng wanted to close the door.
Yuan Chunmei held the door open and begged desperately, "Brother Lili, please, let me see Lili... I'm here to apologize to her, really, I only have one word to say, and then I'll leave!"
Lili had already heard Yuan Chunmei's voice and poked her head out from the kitchen, "What?"
Yuan Chunmei was overjoyed, "Li Li! Li Li!"
Lili came out.
Yuan Chunmei poked her head in from outside the door, "Lili, I have something to tell you..."
"Then go ahead," Lili stared at Yuan Chunmei and said coldly, "But you'd better hurry up, I'm still busy!"
At this time, other members of the Bai family also heard the noise and poked their heads out from their own territories. They took a look and saw that it was Yuan Chunmei?
Everyone glared at her.
Yuan Chunmei bit her lip, "Lili, can you come out for a moment?"
"cannot!"
Yuan Chunmei blushed, "I, I came here alone! And we're not going out, we're just here at the door..."
"If you have something to say, just tell me. If you don't want to talk, just leave." Lili said lightly.
Bai Dongsheng wanted to close the door again.
Yuan Chunmei made up her mind and said to Lili, "Lili, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry... I've failed your friendship. I, I want to say sorry to you... Please accept my apology."
Lili took a deep breath, "I don't accept that."
Yuan Chunmei widened her eyes.
Lili, "I won't forgive you either, just go away!"
Bai Dongsheng wanted to close the door again.
Yuan Chunmei desperately held the door, "Lili! I know I'm sorry for you! But I... I was also kind-hearted! We were very close before, how did you... suddenly become like this?"
Lili turned and walked towards the kitchen, then said to Dongsheng, "Brother, I'm going to get busy."
"White pear!"
Yuan Chunmei shouted, "We already know we are wrong! Can you please let us go?"
Lili was a little surprised, "Me? Let you go?!"
Yuan Chunmei cried, "Meng Guoqiang's sister and his sister-in-law were so anxious that they thought of using those despicable methods... They spread bad words about you outside, threw eggs at your sister-in-law and your sister, and placed broken shoes at your door... But they were also too worried about Meng Guoqiang..."
Lili clenched her fists.
Yuan Chunmei continued to plead, "...As a result, they were arrested by the police early this morning! Lili, today is New Year's Eve! Even if you hate them, you should at least wait until after the 15th, right? How can you arrest someone and take them to the police station on New Year's Day? Lili, we know we were wrong, please be kind and let them go. They will never bother you again, okay?"
Lili, "I don't know what you are talking about. The police arrested them, so you should go to the police and ask them what they have done wrong... I am just an ordinary employee. I didn't open the police station. What right do I have to ask the police to release them?"
As she said that, she turned and walked towards the kitchen, and glanced at Howard - he was currently squeezed at the bathroom door with Song Zhi!
Meng Guoqiang’s family was arrested by the police?
It should be Howard's work!
After all, he was there when she was being gossiped about by those older women last night.
Howard was seen smiling and talking to Song Zhi, as if he had no idea that Yuan Chunmei had come home.
Seeing that Lili ignored her, Yuan Chunmei felt a little flustered and shouted, "Bai Lili! Are you so cruel?"
Dongsheng suddenly had an idea and shouted behind Yuan Chunmei, "Aunt Meng, you're here?"
Yuan Chunmei was forced to come here today by her mother-in-law.
When she heard Dongsheng calling "Aunt Meng", she was startled and turned around to see -
Where is the person? !
As a result, the door of the Bai family slammed shut.
Yuan Chunmei was stunned for a long while, then squatted on the ground and cried with her face covered.
The Bai family doesn't care about Yuan Chunmei at all.
——Because her path was also chosen by herself.
However, by locking Yuan Chunmei out of the door, the world suddenly became quiet.
Everyone continue to take their positions.
Song Zhi asked Howard, "...did you do this?"
Howard smiled but did not answer.
He looked down and saw that the basket of rapeseed straw that Lili had just handed him was still unopened!
Howard shamelessly asked Song Zhi again.
Song Zhi then freed up his hands to teach Howard how to pick and wash vegetables.
Xiao Hongdou was very considerate and brought a small stool to Howard. Howard thanked him and squeezed together with Song Zhi. After Song Zhi killed the chicken, he killed the fish, and Howard started to pick vegetables clumsily.
In just ten to twenty minutes, Taotao ran back and forth at least seven or eight times, asking Song Zhi to taste this or that...
Howard looked at that side eagerly.
——Taotao has brought a lot of food to Song Zhi, when can Lili bring him some food too?
Lili: You wish!
Of course Howard couldn't wait for Lili to bring him food.
Because Lili was being looked after by Tang Liren... at the moment the mother and daughter were busy in the kitchen, and Lili had no time to take care of Howard at all.
Howard asked Song Zhi in a low voice, "Do you think her parents hate me?"
Song Zhi, "I raised this girl with great effort, and now I'm giving her away to you. Can't I show you some respect?"
When Howard heard this, his heart moved slightly.
He asked again, "Then how did you marry the fourth sister?" Taotao is prettier than Lili, and must be more favored. According to Song Zhi, he must have suffered even more when he proposed to Bai Taotao.
Song Zhi thought about it, and lowered his voice and said, "At first they didn't agree, thinking that I would either go back to Nandu or Kyoto, and didn't want Taotao to go so far with me... Later I promised them that I would always be with Taotao and we would never separate."
Howard fell into deep thought.
Song Zhi pointed out to him, "The Bai family values friendship very much... The parents are upright, kind, honest, and do their duty, and they especially love their children and younger generations. You want to marry Lili, but your high position and wealth will only make them wary. Because they are very loving and happy, and their children are also growing up in such a family atmosphere, they certainly hope that their children can also meet the right person and live happily. As for money and power... they have never considered them."
Howard was deeply moved.
He observed carefully again, and sure enough—
He had always thought that Taotao and Song Zhi were quite clingy, but in fact, Bai Dongsheng and Tan Fenghui were also very loving. They had been married for more than ten years. At this moment, the couple were holding rags and buckets, cleaning the windows and cabinets at home... From time to time, they smiled at each other and whispered something, and Tan Fenghui blushed from time to time...
Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren are also in love.
Tang Li was busy in the kitchen, and Bai Zheng was tidying up the balcony. Every two or three minutes he would stretch his neck to look toward the kitchen window to see what Tang Li was doing...
Howard also looked towards the kitchen.
He felt a desire in his heart, hoping that Lili would call him...
I'm very angry.
Lili also kept talking softly to her family, but never paid any attention to him.
Until Xingxing and Song Sui finished wrapping and cooking the dumplings and called everyone to eat——
The whole family is here with a mission.
——Tang Liren and Lili are the main forces in preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner, with Taotao and Song Zhi helping them.
——Bai Dongsheng and Tan Fenghui do the spring cleaning.
——Bai Zhenggan and Nansheng had to tidy up the meat drying rack on the balcony, and also repair the broken furniture at home.
——Xingxing and Song Sui led the little Douzis to make dumplings, which served as today’s lunch.
The three-bedroom house that Bai Zhenggan was assigned was not big, and there were many people in his family...
But what surprised Howard was that he didn't think this family was that noisy. On the contrary, everyone was chatting and laughing, and was very close to each other.
He likes the atmosphere of the Bai family.
The dumplings were stuffed with pork and cabbage, with half meat and half vegetables. The meat paste was fresh, the cabbage was sweet, and the dough was chewy... Taotao was full of ideas. In addition to the traditional dumplings eaten dry with vinegar, she also cooked a pot of chopped green onion and seaweed soup, and dipped the dumplings in the soup to make boiled dumplings; freshly cooked dumplings were fried in a pan to make fried dumplings...
Add sesame oil and vinegar to the soup of dumplings, and it becomes sour soup dumplings; fried dumplings should be dipped in the sweet and spicy sauce she prepared...
Plus, there were so many people around, chatting about this and that, and everyone felt happy and cheerful, and their appetite increased.
After lunch, Tang Liren filled a lunch box with hot dumplings, wrapped it in a small cotton bag, and handed it to Howard. "We don't have much to do here, so you should go back early. Take this box of dumplings back and let your mother and the children have a taste."
Howard nodded, "Thank you..."
The word "Mom" almost came out of my mouth.
"...Thank you, auntie." Howard saw the stiff expression on Tang Liren's face and changed his words in time, still in shock.
Bai Lili said, "Mom and Dad, I'll take him downstairs."
Tang Liren was very unhappy and said with a stern face: "There are still things going on at home..."
"I'll be back soon." said Lili.
Tang Liren, "Then you are not allowed to leave the corridor!"
Lili opened the door and went downstairs one after another with Howard.
At this time, every household is busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. The corridor is quiet and no one is around.
Lili led Howard out of the corridor, and when she saw that there was no one around, she said, "Howard, you don't have to do this in the future."
Howard didn't quite understand for a moment, "What?"
"If you don't like cooking, you don't have to do these... I know you have an assistant and your family should have a nanny to take care of you, so you don't need to do these." Lili said.
Howard, "But, I'm..."
I love so much.
It’s just that without you before, I couldn’t appreciate the beauty of life that is full of the flavor of fireworks.
Lili continued, "I don't like you to change for me. Just be yourself! And I am the same... I won't change for you. I am what I want."
Howard was stunned.
Before he could figure it out—
Lili said in one breath: "You said so... In the next half month, we will try to get along with each other and talk about everything openly. This is what I want to say to you today. Okay, go back. I'm leaving now."
After saying that, she turned around hurriedly and ran towards her home.
Howard: ...
He wanted to chase her and ask her what she meant.
But Tang Liren pushed open the window on the third floor, stuck her head out, and was staring at him and Lili downstairs with a fierce look!
Howard didn't dare to chase her and could only watch Lili escape into the tube-shaped building.
He could only smile dryly and waved to Tang Liren on the third floor, then hugged the lunch box wrapped in a small cotton bag in his arms and quickly left.
However, Howard is not stupid.
He had understood what Lili meant from her words -
She will keep to herself and him from now on?
Howard chuckled.
That won’t do!
However, the innocent and docile little white rabbit actually learned to resist?
It’s so interesting, his Lili is getting cuter and cuter!
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